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James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Workshop: The Semantics and Format of Episodic Representations. 11–12 Jan 2027. NTU Singapore. Philosophers and psychologists working on memory, imagination, and mental representation. Schedule and details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #PhilMind #CogSci

Poster for the workshop 'The Semantics and Format of Episodic Representations', 11–12 January 2027 at NTU Singapore, listing speakers, organisers and funders

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We just announced NTU Philosophy is hiring for three positions, and we linked to the job ads, but there were some errors in the those ads. We will fix the ads and re-announce it once the corrected ads are up! Sorry about that.

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My chapter w/ Chip Sebens (Caltech) on the status of relativistic locality as a gold standard, from electromagnetism to unitary quantum field theory, is now out, as part of a collection of essays on locality in the Everettian/many-worlds approach to quantum mechanics! academic.oup.com/book/63283

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's a wrap for the inaugural APSA conference at NTU! All this wouldn't be possible w/o the participants, keynotes, student helpers, reviewers, and esp. the LOC for ensuring everything fit together in what's surely a paradigmatic example of operational coherence. Thanks everyone! #philsci #philsky

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The final highlight of this past week's phil sci bonanza: the 2nd iteration of the Foundations of Thermo workshop! The theme: a conceptual history of equilibrium. I learnt so much from the speakers and thank everyone for participating! Looking forward to the next one in 2027 😄

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy to share that recordings of talks from our recent workshop on equilibrium, Finding Balance, are now up on YouTube! Please share with anyone who might be interested: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Already looking forward to planning next year's workshop! #philsci #philphys #philsky

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2026 Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop: Finding Balance - YouTube

Recordings of talks from the 2026 Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop: Finding Balance held at NTU Singapore 27-28 July 2026.

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy to share that recordings of keynote lectures and the early career scholar essay prize lecture at the inaugural Asian Phil Sci Assoc conference held in Singapore are now on YouTube! Featuring Craig Callender, @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social, @kevinzollman.com, and Yuang Chen. #philsky #philsci

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Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026 - YouTube

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026 Organized by: School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Asian Philosop...

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James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Becko, Nikola, and I began working on this in 2023. One of those ones that starts out aiming to be an Analysis paper but ends up much longer. We're grateful to many people for discussions of this over the last few years! philpapers.org/rec/ANDADF-3

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As program committee chair, it's my pleasure to announce the program for the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference. We have a great selection of papers, and I'm very excited to see everyone in Singapore come July! Details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #philsci

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Together w/ @miguelohn.bsky.social, I present the 2nd Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop! We'll trace equilibrium reasoning from Archimedes, (post-)Newton, classical thermo, early QM, GR, to quantum thermo, bio, & econs. Abstracts: www.eugenechua.com/ftg2026-find... #philsky #philphys #philsci

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Eugene Y. S. Chua - FTG2026: Finding Balance

2026 Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop: Finding Balance Nanyang Technological University Singapore 27-28 July 2026 Venue: NTU School of Humanities, Seminar Room 9 Organizers: Eugene Y. S. Chua (N...

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am also organizing a book workshop for my colleague Jacob Stegenga's new book, Heart of Science. We have a great line-up of commentators & I am looking forward to meeting everyone! It will take place on 21 July, before APSA26. Register at: tinyurl.com/heartofscience #philsky #philsci

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Happy to share that my paper "Physical Coherence and Time's Emergence" was accepted in Synthese! Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/CHUPCA-6 I provide a thin necessary criterion for successful emergence of time, building on my works on semiclassical & thermal time. #philsci #philsky #philphys

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Eugene Y. S. Chua, Physical Coherence and Time's Emergence - PhilPapers

It is often said that time vanishes in quantum gravity. One general approach to quantum gravity accepts this fundamental timelessness but seeks to derive time’s emergence at a non-fundamental level. T...

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Got to share some new work on integrable quantum statistical mechanics (w/ @yichenluo.bsky.social) and learnt so much talking and listening to others at the Lugano workshop on stat mech & info theory! Lugano is such a beautiful city and I hope to be back soon.

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek are giving a talk entitled "The Foundations of Utilitarianism and its Concept of the Good" at NTU on 14 May 2026. All are welcome! More details can be found on the poster below.

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This past week, @yichenluo.bsky.social & I shared our works in foundations of quantum & relativistic thermodynamics w/ colleagues at Peking University & the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Philosophy. It was lovely to learn from the phil sci & physics community there! #philsky #philsci

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James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Pleased to announce this is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. I first presented it in 2024, and thanks to many conversations I'm happy with how it turned out. Grateful to the guest editors and reviewers for their input too! philpapers.org/rec/OPEGRL

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James Openshaw, Generalised remembering - PhilPapers

Recollections of our personal past are often impressionistic, not so much for lack of detail but for a certain generality of subject matter. If you’ve made a journey many times, you ...

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Looking forward to 2-and-a-half talks next week w/ @yichenluo.bsky.social at PKU & CASIP! Yichen will share our current work on analogies and disanalogies between integrable quantum stat mech and classical TD, while I'll speak on the "work" concept in quantum TD, and classical TD in relativity.

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James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Some photos from last week's Perception, Memory, Imagination workshop here at NTU, co-organised with @whcsung.bsky.social - we're grateful to everyone who presented, participated, and helped out for making it a successful event! Thanks also to CoHASS for the funding to make it happen.

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just published: Sung, "Thinning Out Ritual, Diluting Identity" "When the public identity of a society is diluted, there is a limit to how strong the ritual system can be. Citizens could only agree on a small range of things [...] that does not factor in individual- or group-specific preferences."

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just accepted: The New Chimera for Values in Science – Arnon Levy & Jacob Stegenga Abstract in alt text or read the paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

ABSTRACT. Much of the literature on values in science is framed around the idea of a shift in the status of the so-called value-free ideal (VFI) for science: having been widely accepted in the past, it has now come to be thoroughly rejected. Instead, the commonly asserted view now is that there is a new problem for philosophy of science to address, namely, distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate value-influence on science. While understanding the many intricate ways that values can influence science is an important task for philosophy, we argue that this framing—that there is a single phenomenon to be understood or a single problem to be solved—is misleading and liable to distort inquiry. This framing creates a chimera.

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

NTU's VOYAGE Fellowship is now open to outstanding overseas-based researchers. More information can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/ias/research...

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Simon Goldstein (University of Hong Kong) is giving a talk entitled "The Law of Al Agents" at NTU on 30 March 2026. All are welcome! More details can be found on the poster below.

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Pedro Regis Cabral (Sun Yat-sen University) is giving a talk entitled "Zhu Xi as a Chinese Classical Theist" at NTU on 26 March 2026. All are welcome! More details can be found on the poster below.

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My paper with @yichenluo.bsky.social has been accepted for publication at @thebjps.bsky.social! We argue that standard pictures of de-idealization are themselves idealized, and develop a practice-first account of de-idealization for validating idealized models. Preprint: philpapers.org/rec/LUODDB

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Yichen Luo & Eugene Y. S. Chua, De-Idealizing De-Idealization: Beyond Full Reversal - PhilPapers

There is a question of whether de-idealization is needed for justified use of -- for 'checking' -- idealizations. We argue that the standard philosophical account of de-idealization has become too ide...

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thankful to be invited to present my work on atypicality in LLM-powered psychiatry (jme.bmj.com/content/earl..., preprint on arxiv) and be part of a roundtable dialogue on responsible AI in mental health. Human-centered AI w/ sociotechnical p.o.v., involving all stakeholders, is essential here!

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Haoze Li (NTU) is giving a talk entitled "Future statements without modality" at NTU on 26 February 2026. All are welcome! More details can be found on the poster below.

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"Stegenga’s claim that justification is the “heart of science” definitely gets something right—a career spent doing rigorous research that does not produce paradigm-changing results is still worthwhile, and scientists who do so should be praised for their service." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Careful science is valuable, regardless of results

Scientists should be celebrated for more than just flashy findings, argues a philosopher

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Happy to share that my paper on the special relativistic pressure has been accepted for publication in Synthese! It's the last (for now) of a trilogy of papers on the generalization of thermodynamics into relativity, and I'm glad it found a nice home. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2601.22133

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Putting Pressure Under Pressure: On the Status of Classical Pressure in Special Relativity

Much of the century-old debate surrounding the status of thermodynamics in relativity has centered on the search for a suitably relativistic temperature; recent works by Chua (2023) and Chua and Calle...

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James Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Happy to announce the Perception, Memory, and Imagination workshop to take place here at NTU! Dates: April 9–10th. Details and registration here: event.ntu.edu.sg/2026-04-09-p...

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I am hiring a second postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Foundations of Thermodynamics group! This will be a two-year position. Deadline: March 20, 2026. Please share with anyone who's interested. I'm happy to answer any questions 😄 See PhilJobs ad for more info: philjobs.org/job/show/30726

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

James Openshaw has been awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant! The project, 'Referential (dis)continuities in imagination and memory', will run for 3 years from March 2026 to Feb 2029. www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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Supporting Impactful Research: MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant Awarded to Asst. Prof. James Openshaw

Asst. Prof. Openshaw's principal interests are in philosophy of mind/cognitive science.

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Physicists have recently been "looking for work in quantum thermodynamics", but what would count as success? (To what extent) can quantum foundations help? My paper on these questions has been accepted at the @thebjps.bsky.social! Preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27846/ #hps #philsci #philphys

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Forthcoming in February 2026 Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry argues that the aim of science goes far beyond justification and is, instead, a special kind of truth—common knowledge, a broadly shared and mutually justified scientific finding. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims. In Heart of Science, philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most dominant epi...

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Alex Paseau (Oxford) is giving a talk entitled "Is Historical Mathematics Largely True?" at NTU on 8 January 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: event.ntu.edu.sg/2026-01-08-p...

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Winnie Sung @whcsung.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Shame Across East and West edited by Kwak, Thomason, and Cheng is out. In my paper “Xiu Wu in the Mencius,” I argue that xiu 羞 (being ashamed) is one’s reaction towards others’ wrongdoing. I then analyse the psychology of seeing oneself as a communal being on Mencius’s view.

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In order to gain a deeper understanding of shame and shamelessness as ethico-political phenomena in the contemporary world, this book stages a cross-cultural

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

NTU Philosophy welcomes applications from prospective MA and PhD students. Scholarships are available. The application deadline is 31 December. Note: Starting this year MA students are eligible for advanced entry to a PhD programme in the University of Leeds. www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/admissio...

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Casey McCoy (Yonsei University) is giving a talk entitled "Pursuit-worthiness and Epistemic Justification of Scientific Theories" at NTU on 17 Oct 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: event.ntu.edu.sg/philosophy-m...

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Wrote a short piece for the IAI, on my recent paper on black holes and global energy! Contrary to title, I don't claim to have the messy truth behind black hole physics, but I do think we can move (and ppl are) from idealized global approaches to quasi-local approaches, in search of deidealization.

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Daniel Waxman (NUS) is giving a talk entitled "If You’re Happy, Clap Your Hands!" at NTU on 9 Oct 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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If You’re Happy, Clap Your Hands!

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Ina Jäntgen (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) is giving a talk entitled "Measuring Effectiveness to Inform Decision-Makers" at NTU on 26 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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Measuring Effectiveness to Inform Decision-Makers

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Clint Hurshman (NUS) is giving a talk entitled "Clinical nudging as informing" at NTU on 18 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore @nanyang-philosophy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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Grief Utterances

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